This is What a Health Insurance Death Spiral Looks Like
A handful of reports last week suggested that the Obama administration had moved to delay the health law’s individual mandate — the penalty the …
Money Printing: Everything Old Is New Again
While the world has evolved over the centuries, human emotions have remained the same — happiness, sadness, jealousy, greed, fear. The ruling class and …
What Government Schools Can Teach Us About Government Health Care
A common argument made in favor of government-financed health care is that it is inherently cheaper than a private system. Strangely, however, the people …
Privacy Malpractice
The online Internet exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act are up and running. OK, they’re up. Uhh, OK, some of them are sort …
Obamacare’s Website Is Crashing Because It Doesn’t Want You to Know
A growing consensus of IT experts, outside and inside the government, have figured out a principal reason why the website for Obamacare’s federally sponsored …
Put Them on Permanent Furlough
Friday was day four of the U.S. government shutdown. And what does a former government insider have to say about that? Plenty. In fact, …
Why Debt Dynamics Could Get Ugly
2013 represents another turning point in the demise of the American Empire. If you view it in economic (rather than ethical or moral) terms, …
Look to England for America’s Future
Want to know just how invasive the state is going to get in the United States? Well, take a look across the pond. In …
Why Do Conservatives Support Medicare and Medicaid?
For the life of me, I just don’t get conservatives. They profess to love free enterprise and free markets and they say they hate …
Young Adults and Obamacare
“This only works if young people show up,” said Bill Clinton the other day. He was explaining Obamacare. On the surface, that’s an odd …